英語史の古典的名著 Baugh and Cable の第6版の英文を，helwa メンバーとともにゆっくりと超精読していく読書会を半定期的に開催しています．その毎回の読書会の様子を，Voicy heldio の音声メディアを通じて公開するシリーズを継続中です．2023年7月に開始してから3年弱が経ちましたが，第63節まで進んできています．
今朝の heldio にて，シリーズ最新回を配信しています．「#1796. 英語史の古典的名著 Baugh and Cable を読む (63-5) with Taku さん --- helwa 北千住オフ会より」です．明朝の heldio では，その続編となる「#1797. 英語史の古典的名著 Baugh and Cable を読む (63-6) with Taku さん --- helwa 北千住オフ会より」も配信予定ですので，合わせて2本に連動する形で本記事を公開します．
今回も，heldio/helwa コアリスナーでヘルメイトの Taku さんこと金田拓さん（帝京科学大学）に精読会をリードしていただきました．いつもありがとうございます．数名のギャラリーとともに，いつもながらの深い読みを堪能することができました．
今回の精読対象の英文を以下に掲載します（Baugh and Cable, pp. 83--84) ．B&C の第63節の第2段落の最初から，計1時間ほどかけて15文を読み進めました．
But abuses when bad enough have a way of bringing about their own reformation. What is needed generally is an individual with the zeal to lead the way and the ability to set an example that inspires imitation. King Alfred had made a start. Besides restoring churches and founding monasteries, he strove for twenty years to spread education in his kingdom and foster learning. His efforts bore little fruit. But in the latter half of the tenth century, three great religious leaders, imbued with the spirit of reform, arose in the church: Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 988), Athelwold, bishop of Winchester (d. 984), and Oswald, bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York (d. 992). With the sympathetic support of King Edgar these men effected a genuine revival of monasticism in England. The true conception of the monastic life was inseparable from the observance of the Benedictine Rule. Almost everywhere in England this had ceased to be adhered to. As the first step in the reform, the secular clergy were turned out of the monasteries and their places filled by monks pledged to the threefold vow of chastity, obedience, and poverty. In their work of restoration the reformers received powerful support from the example of continental monasteries, notably those at Fleury and Ghent. These had recently undergone a similar reformation under the inspiring leadership of Cluny, where in 910 a community had been established on even stricter lines than those originally laid down by St. Benedict. Dunstan had spent some time at the Abbey of Blandinium at Ghent; Oswald had studied the system at Fleury; and Athelwold, although wanting to go himself, had sent a representative to Fleury for the same purpose. On the pattern of these continental houses a number of important monasteries were re-created in England, and Athelwold prepared a version of the Benedictine Rule, known as the Concordia Regularis, to bring about a general uniformity in their organization and observances. The effort toward reform extended to other divisions of the church, indeed to a general reformation of morals, and brought about something like a religious revival in the island.
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・ Baugh, Albert C. and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. 6th ed. London: Routledge, 2013.